SCHAUER POLLING AHEAD OF WALBERG-- AND WON'T CHENEY MAKE IT EVEN WORSE?

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This week DWT has been supporting Michigan bloggers trying to raise money and awareness for Mark Schauer, the Blue America-endorsed candidate running against far right extremist Tim Walberg. Today a Detroit News poll was released that shows Walberg lagging and unlikely to win re-election.

John Cavanagh, the political analyst for EPIC-MRA, the polling company which conducted the survey warned that "If I were in Tim Walberg's camp, I would have grave concerns at this point that a relatively unknown Democrat in a traditionally Republican district can match up so competitively."

Walberg barely won 50 percent of the vote in the [2006] November general election against a poorly funded, little known Democrat, prompting the Democrats to target him this year.

The district, which stretches from Battle Creek to the western edge of Ann Arbor, has in the past trended solidly Republican.

But Cavanagh says migration from Ingham County to Eaton County is watering down the Republican flavor of the district.

Voters showed little interest in two issues that are among Walberg's priorities: Only 7 percent of voters in the district picked "promoting morality and family values" as their top concern while 3 percent chose "keeping federal taxes low."

The overwhelming top concern picked by voters-- 41 percent-- was "improving the nation's economy and providing jobs."

So what is the extremist fanatic Walberg doing to reach out to his unimpressed moderate constituents? He's bringing the most divisive and hated figure in American politics, Dick Cheney, into the district to campaign for him. It is widely expected that Walberg will do his best to not be photographed with Cheney and to keep Cheney generally out of sight of the public, just hidden away among the fat-cat campaign contributors who have benefited so handsomely from the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and from economic policies that have brought tough times to the middle class. If you haven't given to Mark's campaign yet-- or if you want to give again, you can do it here.


UPDATE: CHENEY IS IN MICHIGAN TODAY

State Senator Mark Schauer, whose political ascendency over wingnut Tim Walberg is what scared the Regime enough to send Cheney in, had some comments just now on the Cheney fundraising visit: "This Administration's failed policies have devastated Michigan's economy and today's news of massive national job loss proves that they haven't worked for America either. We need real, bipartisan solutions that will create jobs for Michigan and put our priorities first-- not those of the special interests."